US Patent Issued to Google on May 20 for "Alternating-current power harmonic-based circuit state detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,645, issued on May 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Alternating-current power harmonic-based circuit state detection" was invented by Xiaohu Zhou (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Dayu Qu (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems for and techniques of alternating-current (AC) power harmonic-based circuit state detection. In various aspects, a system includes a component, a bypass circuit for the component, and a controller with an AC power harmonic-based circuit state detector that can determine a state of the bypass circuit. The AC power harmonic-based circuit state detector may ...